Kelly Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Kevin Myers wrote: > > Admittedly, the Windows command prompt (not simply Explorer) is less > > capable than most *nix command shells. However, there are also a > > very large number of Windows based GIMP users, and one of the > > requirements of GIMP 2.x is that it should be as usable under Windows > > as it is on other operating systems. > > Windows inhibits its own usability in this respect. It is nearly > impossible to get imbedded quotes from the Windows command line. This is a > defect in the Windows shell. Getting around it would force us to use some > weird character for string quoting, which would be confusing to everyone. > In my opinion, the sacrifice is not worth the gain: we should not have to > do something Weird and Bizarre to cope with Microsoft's inferior product.
Also please consider, that scripting from the commandline is not the thing the average Windows- (and even Linux-) user needs. If a windows user really needs scripting, I'd recommend to install e.g. a bash. The other option always is to use "gimp-1.3 --batch -" and pass the commands to execute to stdin. Bye, Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/ _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer